Alabama Governors
Author: Samuel L. Webb
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014-08-31
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0817318437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of biographical essays, written by thirty-four noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the fifty-seven men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The book is organized chronologically into six sections that cover Alabama's years as a US territory and its early statehood, the 1840s through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the late nineteenth-century Bourbon era, twentieth-century progressive and wartime governors, the Civil Rights era and George Wallace's period of inf.